Monday, July 20, 2009

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Here are a handful of the unpublished photos Life Magazine recently released of a 24 year old Marylin Monroe taken in Los Angeles' Griffith Park about a year or two before her career really took off.

I've always been oddly intrigued by Marylin even before I knew about her chaotic life. I think it's something in her eyes that signals she's a bit broken or that she knows something that others don't. These kind of people/things appeal to me, I guess. But with these photos in particular she seems so full of hope and optimism (and youth, I suppose that may be part of it). Aren't they beautiful?

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